Hi, I am at the mozilla drumbeat event, and I met some of the enthusiastic peopel of the wikimedia there. I discussed the following idea with them. The following simple idea, I think, can create a huge impact in using wikipedia for education as well as for navigation. I seek your comments. * Proposal A new infobox item for every page. ** What other pages the learner should read/learn before the current page? The idea is to build a specific link between pages that will generate a learning sequence (or you wish a teaching sequence or a navigation sequence). The authors of wikipedia pages will add the names of the pages that they think the reader of the page may need to read, if they fail to understand the content of the page. ** How to do this? http://atlas.gnowledge.org started hacking a model that generates dependencies between activities or topics (concepts). For example, you may look at the page: http://atlas.gnowledge.org/view_concept_activity?objid=12675&maptype=de… The top links of the node are the links the user could visit, and the bottom links are those that the user could viist after visiting the current page. ** How to generate a learning sequence? The set of all the dependency links will generate a sequence or a road map for learning. This paper http://gnowledge.org/~nagarjun/collaborative-LTS-published-version.pdf introduces the idea and what are the motivations and inspirations of doing this. ** What wikimedia can do? Currently http://atlas.gnowledge.org supports the following format for adding the dependency links between the nodes. #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE factors < multiplication; subtraction < difference; product < multiplication; factors < product; division < factors; product; fraction < division; multiplication; division > remainder; divisor; quotient; dividend; brackets > order of operations; #+END_EXAMPLE * '<' indicates 'dependson' whereas '>' indicates 'isrequiredfor'. * Multiple relations in a single line are separated by semicolons ';'. * Do not use word processors for creating the files. Use text editors like notepad, emacs, gedit, vi etc. The proposal is to introduce a similar encoding that is easy for the authors of wikipedia to suggest while they edit or create a page. - gn